Free Internet Books

Free online book “My Digital Footprint: a two-sided digital business model where your privacy is someone else’s business!” By Tony Fish. …

Free eBook “The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It” by Jonathan Zittrain. …

Free online book “How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It” by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates. A full, free copy of the book available through Google Books. …

Read Oreilly’s “Wikipedia: The Missing Manual” online for free. Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia, the popular user-generated online reference that serves 9 million entries and 2.5 billion requests per day. …

You probably use Google everyday, but do you know… the Google Snake Game? Googledromes? Memecodes? Googlesport? The Google Calculator? Googlepark and Google Weddings? Google hacking, fighting and rhyming? …

Netdictionary is an alphabetical reference guide to technical, cultural, and humorous terms related to the Internet. It contains over 400 definitions of words drawn from Standard Internet English including technical terms, hacker slang, and acronyms. …

Netizens, one of the first books detailing the Internet, looks at the creation and development of this participatory global computer network. The authors conducted online research to find out what makes the Internet “tick”. …

Using Firefox is a book designed to help you get the most out of the open source web browser Mozilla Firefox. Mozilla Firefox (originally known as “Phoenix” and briefly as “Mozilla Firebird”) is a free, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and hundreds of volunteers. Its current release is Firefox 4, released in March 22, 2011. …

This free online book is aimed at people already familiar with using the Internet, who want to know how and why it works. This work isn’t designed for programmers or others who want to make Internet technology. When we say technology we don’t just mean the software and hardware, but also the human components which are an integral part of the overall system of the Internet. …

Bloggers are often the only real journalists in countries where the mainstream media is censored or under pressure. Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest. Reporters Without Borders has produced this handbook to help them, with handy tips and technical advice on how to remain anonymous and to get round censorship, by choosing the most suitable method for each situation. …